123-reg.com ‘The UK’s #1 domain registrar’, provides hosting services for 3.5 million domain names and 1.7 million websites, as well as email accounts, for 800,000 UK customers. According to the 123-reg website, these customers “are trusted with us everyday”, but this statement was disproved on 16th April at around 7 AM, as many customers lost all of their data, resulting in catastrophe for an array of website owners and small businesses.